进化心理学运用进化理论对心理的起源和本质等问题进行了深入的探讨和研究,通过对人类漫长进化历程的"过去"的梳理,认为语言也是人类长期适应进化的产物。原始祖先部落之间的生存竞争促使了语言机制的发生,人类优先掌握本族语言的语言机制被成功地保留在进化历程的适应中。为了更好地发挥语言机制的功能,人类选择了一个延迟成熟的幼儿期,在人类的生活环境中激活语言机制,习得语言,使个体在成熟期前能最大限度地掌握生活中的各种经验和技能,从而更好地解决人类进化过程中最主要的生存与繁殖问题。
Evolutionary psychology using evolutionary theory explores the psychological origin and nature of psychological issues through the study of a long evolutionary human history of the past,believing that language is the result of the evolution of human long-term adaptation.The living competition between the original ancestral tribes led to the origin of language mechanism.Children mastering the native language of the effective psychological mechanism have been successfully retained in the evolutionary process of adaptation.In order to effectively grasp the psychological mechanism of a delayed maturation of human choice of early childhood,living environment and human interaction through the effective mechanism of activation of language,in the acquisition of language,have controlled the life experiences to the maximum and skills so as to better address the evolution of human survival and reproduction of the main problems.